Resources

Want to do legal design work yourself? Explore the Legal Design Alliance’s resources, as well as those of our members and their organizations.

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What to Read

Find articles, books, academic publications, and visual stories from LeDA members, to help you work better in legal design.

Buchanan, Richard. 2001. “Human Dignity and Human Rights: Thoughts on the Principles of Human-Centered Design.” Design Issues 17 (3): 302–7.

Curtotti, Michael, Haapio, Helena, & Passera, Stefania. 2015.“Interdisciplinary Cooperation in Legal Design and Communication.” In: Schweighofer E. et al. (Eds.) Co-operation. Proceedings of the 18th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2015. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft, pp. 455–462 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2630953

Ducato, Rossana. 2018. “House of Terms: Fixing the Information Paradigm with Legal Design.” Poster presentation at BILETA Conference 2018 “Digital Futures: places and people, technology and data”, University of Aberdeen, 10-11 April 2018.  https://ssrn.com/abstract=3156922

Haapio, Helena, and Margaret Hagan. 2016. “Design Patterns for Contracts.” Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion IRIS 388 (February): 8. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2747280

Haapio, Helena, Margaret Hagan, Monica Palmirani, and Arianna Rossi. 2018. “Legal Design Patterns for Privacy.” In Data Protection / LegalTech. Proceedings of the 21th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS, edited by Erich Schweighofer et Al., 445–50. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3144250.

Haapio, Helena, Daniela Alina Plewe, and Robert de Rooy. 2016. “Next Generation Deal Design: Comics and Visual Platforms for Contracting.” Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion IRIS 380 (February): 8. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2747821

Hagan, Margaret, and Miso Kim. 2018. “Design for Dignity and Procedural Justice.” In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 585:135–45. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2994354

Hagan, Margaret D. 2018. “A Human-Centered Design Approach to Access to Justice Generating New Prototypes and Hypotheses for Intervention to Make Courts User-Friendly.” Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality 6 (2): 199–239. https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1083&context=ijlse 

Hagan, Margaret. 2018. “Justice Innovation with Law School Design Labs.” ABA Dialogue. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_services/publications/dialogue/volume/21/spring-2018/iolta-design-labs.html

Hagan, Margaret. 2016. “User-Centered Privacy Communication Design.” In Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 1–7. https://ssrn.com/abstract=2981075

Hagan, Margaret. 2016. “The User Experience of the Internet as a Legal Help Service : Defining Standards for the next Generation of User-Friendly Online Legal Services.” Va. JL & Tech. 20 (2): 395–465. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2942478

Hagan, Margaret. 2013-ongoing. “Law by Design”. http://www.lawbydesign.co/en/home

Jackson, Dan. 2016. “Human-Centered Legal Tech: Integrating Design in Legal Education.” Law Teacher 50 (1): 82–97. http://www.nulawlab.org/view/human-centered-legal-tech-integrating-design-in-legal-education 

Junginger, Sabine. 2013. “Design and Innovation in the Public Sector: Matters of Design in Policy-Making and Policy Implementation.” Annual Review of Policy Design 1 (1): 1–11. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271210543/download.

Mitchell, Jay A. 2013. “Putting Some Product into Work-Product: Corporate Lawyers Learning from Designers.” SSRN. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2325683 

Palmirani, Monica, Arianna Rossi, Michele Martoni, and Margaret Hagan. 2018. “A Methodological Framework to Design a Machine-Readable Privacy Icon Set.” In Data Protection / LegalTech Proceedings of the 21st International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3195937

Passera, Stefania. 2018. “Flowcharts, Swimlanes, and Timelines: Alternatives to Prose in Communicating Legal–Bureaucratic Instructions to Civil Servants.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication 32 (2): 229–72. https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/27292/article3.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y

Passera, Stefania, Kankaanranta, Anne, & Louhiala-Salminen, Leena. 2017.“Diagrams in Contracts: Fostering Understanding in Global Business Communication.” IEEE Transactions of Professional Communication. Vol.60, n.2, https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/27292/article4.pdf?sequence=7&isAllowed=y

Passera, Stefania, and Helena Haapio. 2013. “Transforming Contracts from Legal Rules to User-Centered Communication Tools: A Human-Information Interaction Challenge.” Communication Design Quarterly, no. April: 38–45. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2466498

Passera, Stefania, Haapio, Haapio, Curtotti, Michael. 2014. “Making The Meaning of Contracts Visible – Automating Contract Visualization.” In: Schweighofer E. et al. (Eds.) Transparency. Proceedings of the 18th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2014. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft, pp. 443–450. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2630609

Passera, Stefania, Helena Haapio, and Thomas D Barton. 2012. “Innovating Contract Practices: Merging Contract Design with Information Design.” CWSL Scholarly Commons, 1–23. http://scholarlycommons.law.cwsl.edu/fs

Perry-Kessaris, Amanda (Forthcoming 2019) Legal Design for Practice, Activism, Policy and Research 46:2 Journal of Law and Society. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3295671 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3295671

Quintanilla, Victor D. 2018. “Human-Centered Civil Justice Design.” Penn State Law Review 121 (3). Accessed February 3. http://www.pennstatelawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Article-3.3-Quintanilla-Final.pdf.

Szabo, Mark. 2010. “Design Thinking in Legal Practice Management.” Design Management Review 21 (3): 44–46. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264251571_Design_Thinking_in_Legal_Practice_Management

Waller, Roberts, Haapio, Helena, & Passera, Stefania. 2017. “Contract simplification: the why and the how.” IACCM Contracting Excellence Journal, 24 July 2017. https://journal.iaccm.com/contracting-excellence-journal/contract-simplification-the-why-and-the-how

Young, Jamie. 2011. “A Virtual Day in Court: Design Thinking and Virtual Courts.” https://www.cep-probation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/DUTT-Summary-RSA-Project-A-Virtual-Day-in-Court.pdf